http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7012415,00.html

AP: Sexual Misconduct Plagues US Schools

Sunday October 21, 2007 6:31 AM

By MARTHA IRVINE and ROBERT TANNER

AP National Writers

The young teacher hung his head, avoiding eye contact. Yes, he had
touched a fifth-grader's breast during recess. ``I guess it was just
lust of the flesh,'' he told his boss.

That got Gary C. Lindsey fired from his first teaching job in Oelwein,
Iowa. But it didn't end his career. He taught for decades in Illinois
and Iowa, fending off at least a half-dozen more abuse accusations.

When he finally surrendered his teaching license in 2004 - 40 years
after that first little girl came forward - it wasn't a principal or a
state agency that ended his career. It was one persistent victim and
her parents.

Lindsey's case is just a small example of a widespread problem in
American schools: sexual misconduct by the very teachers who are
supposed to be nurturing the nation's children.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7012423,00.html

Capital Punishment at Crossroads in US

Sunday October 21, 2007 6:31 AM

By MARK SHERMAN

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Stop executions for a while and perhaps they can be
stopped forever. That calculation has been part of the strategy of
capital punishment opponents for decades.

The Supreme Court-inspired slowdown in executions offers the first
nationwide opportunity in 20-plus years to test whether the absence of
regularly scheduled executions will lead some states to abandon the
death penalty and change public attitudes about capital punishment.

Recent decisions by judges and elected officials have made clear that
most executions will not proceed until the Supreme Court rules in a
challenge by two death row inmates to the lethal injection procedures
used by Kentucky. The inmates say Kentucky's method creates the risk
of pain severe enough to be cruel and unusual punishment, banned by
the Eighth Amendment.

Democratic Lawmaker Pushing Immunity Is Newly Flush With Telco Cash
By Ryan Singel EmailOctober 18, 2007 | 6:21:44 PMCategories:
Surveillance
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/dem-pushing-spy.html

Threatlevel_rockefeller_200x_3 Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-West
Virginia) is reportedly steering the secretive Senate Intelligence
Committee to give retroactive immunity to telecoms that helped the
government secretly spy on Americans.

He has also recently benefited from some interesting political
contributions.

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Top Verizon executives, including CEO Ivan Seidenberg and President
Dennis Strigl, wrote personal checks to Rockefeller totaling $23,500
in March, 2007. Prior to that apparently coordinated flurry of 29
donations, only one of those executives had ever donated to
Rockefeller (at least while working for Verizon).

In fact, prior to 2007, contributions to Rockefeller from company
executives at AT&T and Verizon were mostly non-existent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLF_CebbnMI

- Stewart (San Diego Minuteman)

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2195946,00.html

Hardliners gain as Iran's nuclear negotiator quits

Revolutionary Guard has thousands of rockets to return fire on 'enemy'

Robert Tait in Tehran
Sunday October 21, 2007
The Observer

Iran's nuclear standoff with the West seemed set to hit new levels
yesterday after its chief negotiator resigned in a move that
strengthened the hand of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the country's radical
President.

Ali Larijani quit as secretary of the supreme national security
council after repeated clashes with Ahmadinejad over tactics. His
resignation came as a revolutionary guard commander said it will fire
back thousands of rockets on 'enemy' bases if attacked. Iran has
repeatedly refused to suspend its uranium enrichment programme -
suspected by the US and its allies as a front for building an atomic
bomb - in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions.

On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:32:57 -0700, nobody@nowheres.com
(the_blogologist) wrote:

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http://rawstory.com/news/2007/CBS_confirms_2006_Raw_Story_scoop_1020.html

CBS confirms 2006 Raw Story scoop: Plame's job was to keep nukes from
Iran

CBS News has confirmed, in advance of a 60 Minutes interview with
outed CIA agent Valerie Plame to be run this Sunday, that Plame "was
involved in operations to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons."

"Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not
get nuclear weapons," Plame told 60 Minutes. Plame also indicated that
her outing in 2003 had caused grave damage to CIA operations, saying,
"All the intelligence services in the world were running my name
through their databases" to see where she had gone and who she had met
with.

RAW STORY first revealed Plame's Iran mission and the damage done to
CIA operations by her outing in a February 13, 2006 story by Raw
investigative editor Larisa Alexandrovna, titled "Outed CIA officer
was working on Iran, intelligence sources say." In that article,
Alexandrovna wrote:

Frank Rich: Suicide Is Not Painless

Frank Rich, The New York Times, October 21, 2007

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/opinion/21rich.html?ref=opinion

It was one of those stories lost in the newspaper’s inside pages. Last
week a man you’ve never heard of — Charles D. Riechers, 47, the
second-highest-ranking procurement officer in the United States Air
Force — killed himself by running his car’s engine in his suburban
Virginia garage.

Mr. Riechers’s suicide occurred just two weeks after his appearance in
a front-page exposé in The Washington Post. The Post reported that the
Air Force had asked a defense contractor, Commonwealth Research
Institute, to give him a job with no known duties while he waited for
official clearance for his new Pentagon assignment. Mr. Riechers, a
decorated Air Force officer earlier in his career, told The Post: “I
really didn’t do anything for C.R.I. I got a paycheck from them.” The
question, of course, was whether the contractor might expect favors in
return once he arrived at the Pentagon last January.

CB wrote:

She wasn't misquoted.